Kickin' Back

When we saw Lyla sitting like this to watch "cooby dooby" (her favorite right now), I just had to capture it with the camera. How could that position be comfortable? Notice how Lyla is in jeans, with a brown belt, feet on the table, arms behind her head and Grace is in tap shoes, a skirt, legs crossed, arms crossed. The drastic contrast continues to amaze me. I don't think it's that Lyla doesn't like girly things, it is honestly that she just wants to rebel. Whatever Grace says, she says the opposite. It cracks me up.

These are pictures of the preschool Spring Program. The kids all wear t-shirts with the preschool logo on them. Each class has a different color. Grace is a girly-girl. She wears dresses about 99% of the time. She was not happy about wearing a plain old t-shirt at all! I finally made her accept it by putting it on top of a ruffly dress.

I just love this next picture. Grace and Addie are so into the songs but they just have to catch a quick smile at each other while everyone is clapping. It was so cute!

I don't know how much Lyla was into the whole performing for an audience thing. She doesn't look to happy about it in the pics above. The whole program was cute though. The parents of the kids at preschool just love this stuff.

These are just more pictures of Grace's Pre-K egg hunt. There were too many cute ones.

"Did you get the gold egg?" "No, did you?"

This was just a cute picture that I wanted to include. Grace is wearing her "real" glasses and a winter hat I got for $2 on clearance at Target.

Wow, it's been too long since I've updated this. Everytime something happens I picture the blog in my mind and know what needs to be written. Anyway, I'm going to try to catch up and hit the high points of the past few weeks. Easter was one of the big events lately. The pictures below are of the preschool Easter egg hunts. The girls had fun but the best part is the candy, of course. My philosophy has been to just let them eat as much as they want so it will be gone sooner!


This was the Pre-K hunt. It is a pretty big "party" in the Pre-K year. It is at someone's house and they have the hunt and games and lunch. Grace was not very happy at the hunt b/c they had 4 "special" eggs hidden and whoever found those eggs got a wrapped gift from the Easter bunny. She was not a very gracious loser. The next picture is of the sack race. The girls loved this! Thank goodness they gave medals to ALL participants! Grace is with her best bud Addie, of course. We're going to miss Addie in kindergarten next year!

Sweet Sisters

Last weekend, or sometime last week, Grace and Lyla slept together all night long. This doesn't usually happen b/c they won't be still and calm enough to actually go to sleep when they're in the same room. But on this night Grace was actually already asleep and Lyla was having trouble falling asleep. She was wanting someone to sleep with her. I suggested she sleep with Grace and luckily she was pleased with that option. I put her in bed with an already sleeping Grace and Lyla went right to sleep. So sweet.

This is Lyla looking at the snow first thing in the morning.

Our new house...in the snow
Grace's snow angel....Lyla not knowing what to do with the snow stuck to her gloves...
Grace and cousin Reesi making their snow princess...

Grace proudly showing off their beautiful snow princess, complete with pink furry crown.

Grace loved the snow. Lyla didn't last too long. She was ready for hot chocolate, their favorite drink right now, after only about 15 minutes outside. That was fine with me. I'm not to found of the freezing cold either. Luckily, Eric was there to stay out with Grace and Reesi and snap the pics of the princess. They enjoyed it. Unfortunately, the princess was history by dinner time.